Summary:
Every 120 years or so a dark spot glides across the
Sun. Small, inky-black, almost perfectly circular,
it's no ordinary sunspot. Not everyone can see it,
but some who do get the strangest feeling, of standing,
toes curled in the damp sand, on the beach of a South
Pacific isle.... Get the full
story from Science@NASA.

I took this photo using a projection method with a 60mm
f15 refractor and a Kodak DX 4530 digital camera. I
used a 20mm eye piece. I am also enclosing a photo of
the sun just starting to rise above the horizon.

Today's
Venus transit expedition to Grassy Hill airport in Roxbury
CT was fantastic! Low lying clouds dramatically withdrew
just as the sun nudged through the tree-line, greeting
us with a spectacular naked-eye preview (Venus was huge!)
BTW, this is the first Venus transit ever seen in the
H-alpha bandwidth! Cameras clicked away for well over
an hour... I was able to grab 95 full-disk images during
the session! I've only processed one of the images so
far. The inset on the right is a cropped subsection
from the RAW image in unreduced size.

This
movie was assembled with pictures taken with a Canon
300D and a 10' Newtonian reduced to 8', to capture the
visible ring of light that happened after the 3rd contact.
It was perfectly visible for some time to the naked
eye. Some frames of the movie also show hints of what
could be the ashen light on the surface of Venus

Photos
taken using a hydrogen-alpha solar filter and a Canon
D60 digital camera. A horizon-level haze allowed naked
eye viewing of the transit at sunrise. As the sun rose
above the haze, I captured a sequence of the end of
the transit in hydrogen alpha. I was amazed at how large
the disk of venus was, I expected it to be much smaller.